The New Orleans Levee Protection System was designed to protect the city from massive flooding. The levee system was born out ...

The system was born out of the devastation left behind by Hurricane Besty, and then destroyed and redone following Hurricane Katrina.

Storm surge is one of the deadliest impacts of hurricanes. Find out what it looks like, who’s most at risk and the plan to ...

A levee system that protects about 200,000 residents in Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes from Gulf of Mexico storms reached a milestone today with an agreement that kicks off federal-led ...

While there are currently no active storms threatening the United States, hurricane season is just getting started, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reported that the levee system is the most ...

The 1937 flood left behind a convincing argument: It costs much less to invest in a state-of-the-art levee system than it does to rebuild every time the Ohio overcomes its banks. About two decades ...

The surge wall seals a gap in the levee system along State Highway 361, helping safeguard the area ahead of the 2025 ...

Credit: Nick Graham Credit: Nick Graham This story looks at why the dam and levee system is facing expensive challenges. The conservancy district maintains and operates the dam and levee system ...

The Burns levee system is a 2.4-mile stretch of earth and rocks buffering the town from a bank of the Silvies. It was originally constructed by property owners along the river, though there aren ...

In May 1949, 11 inches of rain fell on Fort Worth in nine hours, turning the Trinity River into a 14-block-wide body of water ...